Levy & Salomão Advogados provides expert tax advice on and represents clients in judicial and administrative disputes relating to all federal, state and municipal tax matters. Team’s expertise includes:
- advising clients on the correct and efficient application of tax legislation involving all direct, indirect, customs, social security, and financial transaction taxes;
- defining ideal tax structures for the establishment and start-up operations of Brazilian companies and businesses, often involving multinational corporations doing business in Brazil; structuring domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, joint-ventures, corporate and estate reorganizations, restructurings, estate and succession planning; diverse types of foreign investments in Brazil and Brazilian investments overseas; expert advice in financial and capital markets transactions; infrastructure projects (electric energy, telecommunications, water/sewage, oil and gas); securitizations; international lending and financing; securities offerings and placements in Brazil and abroad;
- advice in transactions involving the digital economy, e-commerce, fintechs (financial technology companies), and new payment solutions and facilities developing in Brazil;
- advice regarding multiple tax effects stemming from IFRS-based rules and guidelines recently adopted by Brazil;
- advice on transfer pricing and thin capitalization control;
- legal counsel in obtaining federal, state, municipal, regional, and sector-specific tax incentives, special tax and customs regimes;
- assistance in tax audit and inspection procedures;
- identifying tax contingencies, tax benefits and opportunities;
- reviewing tax procedures and returns (corporate and individual);
- drafting of proposals to amend federal, state and municipal tax legislation;
- administrative tax litigation to ward off illegal tax collections;
- judicial tax litigation to claim tax benefits and ward off illegal tax collections;
- full assistance in due diligence procedures, reviewing tax litigation documents and classifying related risks and contingencies;
- assistance on solving retention of goods and customs problems; and
- establishing and coordinating company fiscal boards.
